A book from Johanna Lindsey’s Malory Series may have been the first romance novel I ever read,
the first one that made me pause and go “hmmm, romance?” but it was Dance Upon the Air, the first book in
Roberts’ Three Sisters Trilogy that
had me scrambling back to the book store in search of more, and more. And more.
Since that auspicious day many years ago, my library has
grown beyond the space allotted to hold it. Today I have books stashed in
nearly every room of my home and in all kinds of nooks and crannies. My phone, iPad and e-reader are loaded with even
more books in digital form. Yet every
Spring, nearly like clockwork, I seem to gravitate towards the sections of my
library that hold my Nora Roberts’ collection.
Maybe I need to be refreshed and rejuvenated, as the Earth is during
Spring. Maybe I just feel the need to return
to the stories and books that were an essential part of making me the reader
and writer I am today.
Most of all, I turn back to the Nora Roberts’ books because
of the relationships that she writes – not just man to woman, or woman to man, but
all of the relationships: mother to child, brother to brother, cousin to
cousin, and on and on. I am a
30-something-year old woman with a husband and three kids. I have sisters, parents, cousins,
grandparents, aunts and uncles and more.
That’s life, real life, my life. And I know every single time I pick up a Nora
Roberts’ novel, no matter what it is, that that
is what I’ll find inside. Regardless of
magic and mystery, myth, suspense or history, any title by Nora that I pick up
will have those gossamer strings of family weaving through it.
So on this Mother’s Day I’ve reached for my bookshelf and
pulled out Blue Dahlia from the In The Garden trilogy. A wonderful book and trilogy that illuminates
the beauty and love of family – not just the one you’re born into, or the one
you birth, but also the family that you choose and nurture, the family that you
make your own.
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